jomamaxx

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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"This still meant that they were basically swapping hyperinflation for racking up a huge external debt instead" This is extremely misleading. There is absolutely no need for a country to be borrowing at such large rages. Your stat
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"I'd like the Federal Reserve to control overall fiscal policy as well" This is beyond irresponsible. The Fed is a bank (and privately owned) - not an apparatus designed to manage the state. They have absolutely no businesses
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"Nearly every country in the world has adopted the US's system of central banking: an unelected, privately owned central bank that creates money through bond purchases or some other mechanism." This is false. A) 'Central
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I think it's because the laws were made a long, long time ago when internationalism didn't really exist.
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"They can claim a tax deduction of all the taxes paid globally on their U.S tax returns." No - I don't believe this is true in the sense you mean it. Effectively for corp. taxes - US companies are indeed 'double taxed&#x
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The USA is alone in the world with it's odd repatriation laws. If a company pays x% tax somewhere overseas - they still have to pay full amount of corporate tax when repatriating - meaning US companies are 'double taxed'. I.E
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" In the old days, there were only so many things people had to understand" Most of them were illiterate, had very little access to any real news. The very concept of 'unbiased' news is a modern American phenom. Of cours
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Stop electing members of the Judiciary to begin with, and implement a better system of oversight. Hopefully that has as much local input as national.
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We're using these things and we're not even sure how they work. Love it. At least we should have a standard for characterizing their accuracy or something like that ...
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"It's irrational to argue that you would pull out of a merger because a 3rd party's rocket failure delayed a launch." Maybe, maybe not. A lot of things intertwined - moreover, M&A is not the most rational area of bus
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"Same reason they did a false flag bombing attempt on US and British targets in the 50s instead of simply asking for support?" -> This is not the 1950's Enough with the conspiracy theories here. Unless you have some eviden
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"What would stop journals from blacklisting scientists who publish their articles under open access laws?" I think there would just be far too many of them. Moreover, the Scientists could feign that they were not possibly involved
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Men are far more likely to die from all sorts of things, esp. occupational hazards. Nobody cares.
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"In BC, Canada the provision of electricity and water are by provincial/municipal governments, have very similiar requirements in terms of running wires/pipes, and in my experience have delivered much better services." T
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??? + We're talking about where and why the new temples were built. 'Why' there were built there is a pretty important part of the overall question. + My proposition was to support the theory that they were built there for ge
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There are no 'Federal Taxes' in Europe. Corporations don't pay a corporate tax at the European level - just to the states. So there is tax competition.
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In Europe, there are no 'Federal' taxes i.e. at the European level. All taxes are to the 'State'. So it doesn't matter if my analogy is a little bit off.
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Because it would be very difficult for carriers to co-opt entities like Netflix into nonstandard schemes if there were a lot of competition. You hinted at it in your comment: "the large players started to talk about colluding" Onl
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"The argument doesn't makes sense. When a normal citizen is choosing her internet provider they are not going to expend a lot of time looking at the implications of their decision." I think you're missing the implication
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"Luxembourg is like the delaware of Europe," But most taxes in the US are Federal. In Europe they are effectively 'state level' - making the problem worse for Europe than for state-by-state tax competition in the US. Re:
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String Theory is probably nonsense, so it's in good company.
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"In the past" In the past? This is ongoing - enabled by Junker himself ...
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"Member states cannot give tax benefits to selected companies - this is __illegal__ under EU state aid rules," Yeah - but this arrangement has been going on for more than 20 years, no? A little late in the game to be declaring it
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I think you meant to say - the top 10% pay 43% of the tax burden.
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"When a company has just started, they may have not set this up. The correct (and only non-criminal) order of operations is (1) figure this out, (2) start hiring employees." This is false. For any of you interested - here is the a
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"It is a big deal, running a business requires following the law." Again - I would suggest that maybe you have never started a company or done payroll, or paid anyone yourself. It is not required to have 'payroll' to pay
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"Real companies with people running them who want to do things on the up and up and who know how to run a successful company want to keep a paper trail of every dollar going in or out the door." Most of you it seems have never run
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"AI + human is less productive than AI sans human." This is totally speculative on your part and it depends on the task.
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Actually, you can calculate the value of an equity packages, since the 1980's we've been able to intelligently price options (see: Black-Scholes) - but it's a matter of being able to wrap a good probability distribution aroun
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"Take the Star Trek universe (where they got rid of money)" The Star Trek universe is basically ridiculous on this concept. There is absolutely nothing wrong with money - moreover, it's basically nutbars to talk about getting

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